Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : I want to create one LV for /usr and one LV for /var. But I can't create a LV with: # lvcreate --size 10.10G -n usr bubba Rounding up size to full physical extent 10.10 GiB /dev/bubba/usr: not found: device not cleared Aborting. Failed to wipe start of new

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-21 Thread Gustavo S. L.
A small contribution, perhaps unnecessary. To change the size of a lvs with lvreduce or lvextend is important to use the resize2fs and e2fsck command. Good luck in solving the problem On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit :

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-21 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org writes: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : I want to create one LV for /usr and one LV for /var. But I can't create a LV with: # lvcreate --size 10.10G -n usr bubba Rounding up size to full physical extent 10.10 GiB /dev/bubba/usr: not found: device not

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-18 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org writes: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage Glad you were lucky. What is my goal? Filesystem

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:25:09AM +0200, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: I bought the headless powerpc server here: http://www.excitostore.com/ If you mean the Excito B3, it would appear to be ARM, not PowerPC. That's good for you because ARM is still a supported architecture in Debian, and

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread csanyipal
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:25:09AM +0200, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: I bought the headless powerpc server here: http://www.excitostore.com/ If you mean the Excito B3, it would appear to be ARM, not PowerPC. That's good for you because ARM is still a

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread csanyipal
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:25:09AM +0200, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: I bought the headless powerpc server here: http://www.excitostore.com/ If you mean the Excito B3, it would appear to be ARM, not PowerPC. That's good for you because ARM is still a

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org writes: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage Glad you were lucky. Now, I can to use parted to resize my

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org writes: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage Glad you were lucky. Now, I can to use parted to resize my

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 12:40 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
csanyi...@gmail.com writes: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: [snipped] My headless powerpc box can't boot from CD because it hasn't CD device. It only has USB drive. Furthermore, it can't boot with an usual system rescue image

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 08:26 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com writes: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: [snipped] My headless powerpc box can't boot from CD because it hasn't CD device. It only has USB drive. Furthermore, it can't

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. Why ? The use of LVM should avoid the need to resize partitions (PVs). root@b2:~# e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) Pass 1: Checking inodes,

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage Glad you were lucky. Now, I can to use parted to resize my partitions. What is my goal? Filesystem

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 09:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. Why ? The use of LVM should avoid the need to resize partitions (PVs). root@b2:~# e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage e2fsck 1.42.12

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org writes: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage Glad you were lucky. Now, I can to use parted to resize my

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 14/06/15 09:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: There is no partition to correct. The problem is in the LV bubba/storage and its filesystem. If you read the original post, it looks like the e2rsize failed. Therefor the only

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 14/06/15 09:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. Why ? The use of LVM should avoid the need to resize partitions (PVs). root@b2:~# e2fsck -f

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root ext3

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-13 Thread csanyipal
Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted

Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-13 Thread csanyipal
Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root ext3 9621848 8293064840008 91% / devtmpfs

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:42:14AM +0500, Daniel Suleyman wrote: Dear all, i have big issues. I've installed lenny on my server, installed all programs and ran it on production, ut now i need to install oracle on it. My artitions have sizes user:~# df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-08 Thread Csanyi Pal
Daniel Suleyman danik...@gmail.com writes: Dear all, i have big issues. I've installed lenny on my server, installed all programs and ran it on production, ut now i need to install oracle on it. and oracle wont install becouse my root partition have less size that oracle need. how I an

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-08 Thread lee
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:42:14AM +0500, Daniel Suleyman wrote: and oracle wont install becouse my root partition have less size that oracle need. how I an resize my partitions on fly? or at least from livecd but with guaranteed no data losses. Thank you in advance, Daniel In any case,

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-08 Thread Noah Dain
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM, leel...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:42:14AM +0500, Daniel Suleyman wrote: and oracle wont install becouse my root partition have less size that oracle need. how I an resize my partitions on fly? or at least from livecd but with guaranteed

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-08 Thread Daniel Suleyman
ok, Ihave hardware raid, it make my life dificult or it will be transparent to the OS? I am installing oracle-xe-universal from sources.list it give me error no spce for /etc/dp?? (don't remember dir) I changed dpkg options setting instdir to /home/ but after oracle package outputed error cant

Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel Suleyman
Dear all, i have big issues. I've installed lenny on my server, installed all programs and ran it on production, ut now i need to install oracle on it. My artitions have sizes user:~# df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 327M 141M 170M 46% / tmpfs 5.9G 0 5.9G 0%

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-07 Thread Suno Ano
If the filesystem allows for it, you can do it online. There, in line 389, is an example of howto grow xfs: http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/lvm.html#resizing_volumes pgpul0F7Q9xfp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel Suleyman
sorry forgot to cat fstab user:~# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/cciss/c0d0p9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/cciss/c0d0p8 /tmp ext3

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-29 Thread Andrew Biggadike
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 22:01, Alex Malinovich wrote: parted is very safe. And it's actually quite easy to use. If you can use ftp (or any other pseudo-shell program) you'll be right at home in parted. And if you want to learn more about linux, using a Windows program such as PM won't help

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 07:45, Andrew Biggadike wrote: From GNU's parted webpage (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html) under Features: For ext2, ext3 and reiserfs: the start of the partition must stay fixed. This would prevent me from doing what I had intended. Does this mean I

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 27 Jun 2002 21:37:53 -0400 Andrew Biggadike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, yes, I did forget to mention: I am using NT Loader to dual boot, so I believe lilo is on /dev/hda3 (though I'm still not exactly clear about everything). Using the Windows loader shouldn't complicate matters at all,

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 20:37, Andrew Biggadike wrote: Ah, yes, I did forget to mention: I am using NT Loader to dual boot, so I believe lilo is on /dev/hda3 (though I'm still not exactly clear about everything). Using the Windows loader shouldn't complicate matters at all, should it? Sorry I

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 09:01 pm, Andrew Biggadike wrote: I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 23:29, Derek Gladding wrote: The only possible weirdness I could see with your configuration is that /boot is not at the start of the disc, which is a setup I've never used. Gut instinct says it shouldn't be a problem, but I wouldn't bet my life (or critical data) on it.

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Andrew Biggadike
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 12:46, Alex Malinovich wrote: Sorry I got into this thread a bit late. Since it looks like you're already using Partition Magic, just an ethical heads up for future reference. With the exception of working with NTFS partitions, GNU parted, in my experience, works much

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 20:16, Andrew Biggadike wrote: What exactly do you mean by butcher your partition numbers? I haven't done it yet and might like to try parted - not necessarily for ethical reasons (though I certainly understand what you're saying), but just to learn more about linux. My

Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Andrew Biggadike
I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way to go about doing this? If I use a Windows tool, such as

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Travis Crump
Andrew Biggadike wrote: I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way to go about doing this? If I use a

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 09:59 pm, Travis Crump wrote: [snip] I am in this situation with the exception that my Windows 2000 partition is NTFS so I assumed off the bat that there wouldn't be a linux solution. I've resized by NTFS partition twice. My method was to just shrink the NTFS to

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Andrew Biggadike
I have received those error messages when I have loaded up Partition Magic (7.0) as well - I haven't done anything yet though. You mentioned a rescue CD, how do I go about creating one? Is that a PartitionMagic rescue CD or a Linux rescue CD? Instead of creating new partitions, do you know if

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 27 Jun 2002 00:01:43 -0400 Andrew Biggadike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any I have a dual boot

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 27 Jun 2002 06:53:05 -0400 Andrew Biggadike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mentioned a rescue CD, how do I go about creating one? Is that a PartitionMagic rescue CD or a Linux rescue CD? The Debian CDs can be used as rescue CDs. Otherwise, you can either download boot diskette images from

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Andrew Biggadike
Ah, yes, I did forget to mention: I am using NT Loader to dual boot, so I believe lilo is on /dev/hda3 (though I'm still not exactly clear about everything). Using the Windows loader shouldn't complicate matters at all, should it? Thanks for the information! Andrew On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 18:28,

resizing partitions

2001-03-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I've recently found out that my /tmp partition might be too small for a particular application. I know that fips is supposed to allow non-destructive repartitioning. How would you recommend such a thing under Linux? I don't have a windows partition, nor do I want one, so Partition

Re: resizing partitions

2001-03-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
parted and ext2resize. also, partition magic knows about ext2, so that's your easiest option. just get a partition magic bootdisk. DON'T use fips. wrong tool for the job. fips doesn't know how to split ext2 filesystems. only vfat and dos. pete On Sat 24 Mar 01, 1:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier

Re: resizing partitions

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat 24 Mar 01, 1:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier said: Hey people. I've recently found out that my /tmp partition might be too small for a particular application. I know that fips is supposed to